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I guess since there's not really an allegory Outer Wilds isn't really sci-fi per the classical definition, it's a mystery set in space
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Sep 7, 2023 18:39
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loquacius posted:Outer Wilds is anarchist sort of. Both societies in it are essentially just science lab institutes run by committee and consisting of like thirty people each Loquacuus making a strong argument that outer wilds is a bad game
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Sep 7, 2023 18:40
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I actually got bingo like 3 months ago. I should have said something. All your cards are worthless now.
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Sep 7, 2023 18:41
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Frosted Flake posted:I’d like some future sci fi setting where the government isn’t a liberal conception of either dystopia, utopia or a presentist End of History. there was that weird dos fighter game where you're flying an incan space ship it's called inca https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASgoxIRnZ0M i don't think it was good
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Sep 7, 2023 18:43
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Mr Hootington posted:Loquacuus making a strong argument that outer wilds is a bad game And yet you love Fortnite, which is the same but the population is 100 people. Curious
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Sep 7, 2023 18:46
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Grapplejack posted:And yet you love Fortnite, which is the same but the population is 100 people. Curious Anarchism and Communism are not the same thing
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Sep 7, 2023 18:47
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PostNouveau posted:I actually got bingo like 3 months ago. I should have said something. All your cards are worthless now. Sir, this is a Wendy's
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Sep 7, 2023 18:48
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Frosted Flake posted:I’d like some future sci fi setting where the government isn’t a liberal conception of either dystopia, utopia or a presentist End of History. not a game but the novel A Memory Called Empire (and its sequel A Desolation Called Peace) by Arkady Martine takes place in sort of an Aztec-inspired far future empire that puts a lot of emphasis on poetry and oration and is very unique as far as sci fi settings go
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Sep 7, 2023 18:49
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god what was that point and click adventure game from the early 90s where you were stuck in some kinda spooky new mexican town and one of the main mechanics is finding vhs tapes to watch for clues?
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Sep 7, 2023 18:51
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Al! posted:i thought the propaganda in the uc museum was a little over the top at first but its actually exactly how the us talks about the wars it lost or the ghastly human experimentation it did i love the bit about the cowardly collective hid its military fleet behind its civilian fleet and thats how the Freestar Collective won  im like sure thats what exactly happened totally The UC is Obama
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Sep 7, 2023 18:52
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Hatebag posted:god what was that point and click adventure game from the early 90s where you were stuck in some kinda spooky new mexican town and one of the main mechanics is finding vhs tapes to watch for clues? I believe that is Five Nights at Freddys
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Sep 7, 2023 18:52
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Popy posted:i love the bit about the cowardly collective hid its military fleet behind its civilian fleet and thats how the Freestar Collective won they literally have mental health alerts on their mars mining base because people keep running into the mines.
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Sep 7, 2023 18:53
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Ben Nerevarine posted:not a game but the novel A Memory Called Empire (and its sequel A Desolation Called Peace) by Arkady Martine takes place in sort of an Aztec-inspired far future empire that puts a lot of emphasis on poetry and oration and is very unique as far as sci fi settings go im most of the way through children of time and it describes a spider society which is a bizarre combo of ecofash, technocrat, and ancomm
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Sep 7, 2023 18:54
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We, uh, orbitally bombarded some folks
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Sep 7, 2023 18:54
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Al! posted:im most of the way through children of time and it describes a spider society which is a bizarre combo of ecofash, technocrat, and ancomm I liked the ant semaphore computers, looking forward to reading the sequels eventually
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Sep 7, 2023 18:56
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Mr Hootington posted:I believe that is Five Nights at Freddys lies!
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Sep 7, 2023 18:59
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gradenko_2000 posted:played Starfield for an hour, up through the first landing at New Atlantis Interstellar-core is where I would place the aesthetics yeah, which jives with their "NASApunk" marketing since that's what Interstellar was, e.g what if NASA kept going but the intervening years/event made them sacrifice professionalism and everything has a layer of grime from actually being landed in places. Also this may be a console thing idk but I heard it was already capped at 30fps. My thought after 2 hours: - They were serious about SSD being a minimum requirement. I didn't know that and installed it on a spinner and there were lag spikes and audio choppiness like crazy. I cleared space on an SSD and transferred it there and it plays perfectly fine on ultra. Lol it takes almost half the drive by itself. - It is interesting to see a Bethesda game that isn't in a literal wasteland or a medieval-ish fantasy setting, where there are crowds of people milling around. - The menus are kinda bad to navigate around and often I end up pulling up a system map when I just want to change my gear. - Why do I have to manually put on the spacesuit in the menu? Everything else is streamlined so why not that? - I do like how they let you just go from the cockpit to the ground and back without walking through the rest of the ship, which at least for the beginning ship is useless. - The gunplay feels ok but drat every enemy takes an entire 40 round magazine to drop. They're wearing spacesuits, a few punctures or a helmet breach and they should be done. Melee is actually pretty viable. - Also stealth should be much easier without even doing the sneaky crouch because if you're in hard vacuum, you can't hear anything. If you watch For All Mankind, this is demonstrated by the cosmonauts being able to just walk up behind a guy and kill him and even someone yelling to turn around doesn't matter because he can't hear anything. There's also the scene where a cosmonaut gets shot and it ignites all the oxygen in his suit because they ran 100% oxygen and that's flammable.
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Sep 7, 2023 19:03
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in general stealth gets way better if you are not in tight corridors.
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Sep 7, 2023 19:06
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turn off the TV posted:the number of genocide apologists turning up for armored core 6 is very funny 
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Sep 7, 2023 19:06
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apparently unequipping your space suit helps with stealth. seems dangerous
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Sep 7, 2023 19:14
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skooma512 posted:There's also the scene where a cosmonaut gets shot and it ignites all the oxygen in his suit because they ran 100% oxygen and that's flammable. i think you can shoot people's space packs and blow them up (either that or i've shot a couple in the back who were holding nades or something)
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Sep 7, 2023 19:15
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i guess theres no eva in starfield otherwise id recreate the famous astronaut meme
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Sep 7, 2023 19:18
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Al! posted:i guess theres no eva in starfield otherwise id recreate the famous astronaut meme I'm sure you could spawn the assets outside your ship while in space and do this for a picture.
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Sep 7, 2023 19:20
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Cao Ni Ma posted:The UC didnt beat the dirt farmers because they had human shields also we totally punished our war criminals hmmmmm okay I believe u but first I want to see what you keep in your basement it better not be a war criminal!!!!
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Sep 7, 2023 19:20
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tcl through the ship walls and ?? something will happen I guess
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Sep 7, 2023 19:21
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ac6 genocide spoilers every ending is genocide 1. fires of raven: xenocide coral and genocide all of rubicon and the surrounding solar system 2. liberator of rubicon: kick the genocide can down the road for awhile 3. alea lacta est: genocide humanity
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Sep 7, 2023 19:21
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DaysBefore posted:tcl through the ship walls and ?? something will happen I guess i think the outside world exists in your ship and not the other way around so tcl could work
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Sep 7, 2023 19:23
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skooma512 posted:- Why do I have to manually put on the spacesuit in the menu? Everything else is streamlined so why not that? open spacesuit menu and look at the bottom of the screen. there’s a “hide spacesuit when I don’t need it” option. Al! posted:apparently unequipping your space suit helps with stealth. seems dangerous lol idk if the above has any impact on this because my character’s stealthiest weapon is an explosive grenade launcher. my companion has a mini gun.
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Sep 7, 2023 19:23
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I have a 1000000+ bounty in UC space cause of a misunderstanding.
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Sep 7, 2023 19:23
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Starfield apparently doesn't run well on Steam Deck and BG3 is just ok on it; we've already reached the point where AAA releases are outstripping its capabilities. Switch 2 is well positioned imo even as a Deck enthusiast The built-in streaming service is buggy too; I had to reinstall every game on the internal hard drive after it froze when I tried to quit which seems pretty bad!
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Sep 7, 2023 19:24
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Lpzie posted:I have a 1000000+ bounty in UC space cause of a misunderstanding. I did everything right and they indicted me
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Sep 7, 2023 19:24
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Red Baron posted:open spacesuit menu and look at the bottom of the screen. there’s a “hide spacesuit when I don’t need it” option. wait... does the "hide spacesuit" option actually impact stealth???? god i hope so
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Sep 7, 2023 19:24
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Lpzie posted:I have a 1000000+ bounty in UC space cause of a misunderstanding. I sold a perfect black market briefcase and they indicted me!
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Sep 7, 2023 19:25
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punished milkman posted:ac6 genocide spoilers eh, 2 is not a genocide. you're just helping your friend!
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Sep 7, 2023 19:26
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The spacesuit only hides in cities/friendly stations etc. But I don't think it actually changes stats it's more like the camp clothing toggle in Baldurs Gate
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Sep 7, 2023 19:26
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This is the weed page
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Sep 7, 2023 19:27
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Ben Nerevarine posted:I sold a perfect black market briefcase and they indicted me! the amount of contraband I’ve left behind because I don’t have smuggler stuff yet hurts
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Sep 7, 2023 19:28
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found the guy who will remove the wanted trait for a measly 2k but why would i want to do that??? i hope you get to eventually meet the guy who hates you so much sometimes "bounty protectors" will warp in and fight the other bounty hunters. if you hail them they'll go yeah the guy is increasing it every week we're just fattening you up
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Sep 7, 2023 19:28
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here is one of my favorite quotes about the ending lol quote:People call it a "bad ending" largely because of the Coral's sentience - and immedieately assume that genocide is the wrong choice. punished milkman posted:ac6 genocide spoilers there's no reason to think that it happens in 2 or 3 since the second is so open ended and the third ends with 621 still hearing Ayre through their augments
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Sep 7, 2023 19:29
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Red Baron posted:the amount of contraband I’ve left behind because I don’t have smuggler stuff yet hurts same, I’m searching around right now for a planet and place where I can temporarily dump all my contraband stuff for a later pickup I will inevitably forget all about it
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Sep 7, 2023 19:32
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